[R] [newbie] *apply to matching elements of n arrays?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Not particularly interested in "points" from you. Would like reproducibility from you [1], including dput of before and after data, and (inefficient) code of course.

 For loops are part of R.. If your data structure is not set up to take advantage of vectorization, then for loops are generally of the same order of speed as apply functions, and are perfectly usable. You may benefit from sensible memory management optimizations, or from a data reorganization so you can do vector computations.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
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Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>How to apply a function to all elements with the same indices in
>multiple arrays? E.g.:
>
>I have two spatial grids defined the same way (i.e., same number of
>rows and columns--and dimensions, both 2D). Wherever both
>
>* the value of an element i,j in the first grid is NA
>* the value of element i,j in the second grid is !NA
>
>I want to copy the value from grid2[i,j] to grid1[i,j]. These matrices
>are not too big, so I'm able to do this with loops, but I know that's
>not "the R way." How to parallelize/vectorize this, e.g., with a
>single call to an 'apply'-type method? I believe I know how to operate
>on a single matrix (e.g., by using `apply` to traverse it by rows or
>cols), but not how to operate on multiple matrices.
>
>Extra points for solutions that generalize to 3D or 4D (i.e., that
>allow
>applying the same function to identical elements in n arrays of n
>dimensions), since I will almost certainly need to work on arrays of
>those dimensions eventually.
>
>Apologies if this is a FAQ, but a fair amount of googling via
>rseek.org is not finding an answer (perhaps because I'm not using the
>correct search terms). Feel free (in fact, be encouraged :-) to reply
>directly to me as well as the list (I'm on the digest, which gets
>huge).
>
>TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
>
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